Is Your State Attorney General Undermining America’s Clean Power Plan?

Although the nation’s attention is focused on the Presidential election, there is another office that wields tremendous power — and which voters get to choose. It is their state’s Attorney General, otherwise known as the People’s Lawyer.

Individual Attorneys General have been the recipients of a combined $2.8 million. There is an evident link between their actions and campaign donations from fossil fuel entities. Once again, the fingerprints of the Koch Brothers are clearly visible, particularly via their lobbyists.

The surreptitious collusion between energy companies and specific state Attorneys General becomes crystal clear when looking at contribution supporters of Attorneys General who are part of the lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan. There are three men who received funds in the six figures:

My particular favorite was Ken Paxton, the Attorney General from Texas. He has pocketed a cool $1,067,817.

Requests through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have turned up documentation of “closed door” communications between the offices of numerous Attorneys General and lobbyists with connections to energy companies and the Kochs.